Surprisingly, the 19th  book in the FBI Agent at Large Aloysius Pendergast series takes place less than a month after Verses for the Dead (book…

Pardonable Lies demonstrates Winspear’s ability to balance pace, plot and characters with skill and dexterity.

In Maisie’s 9th instalment Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear, she is asked to investigate the ‘accidental’ death of Eddie Pettit, a simple man ‘whose…

Having thoroughly enjoyed Fowler’s first Bryant & May mystery, Full Dark House, I approached The Water Room by Christopher Fowler with combined excitement and…

The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths is another great page turner. This time she has turned her hand to a gothic thriller, in a contemporary…

In Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear, It’s Christmas 1931 and Maisie finds herself seconded to Military Intelligence.

Goodnight Sweet Prince by David Dickinson, is the first instalment of the Lord Francis Powerscourt murder investigative series.

In The Mapping of Love and Death by Maisie Dobbs, it’s 1914, and Michael Clifton is a young cartographer who has recently purchased a plot…

Dying Fall takes us away from Ruth’s beloved Norfolk home to the much more prosaic landscape of Blackpool.

See you at the Toxteth by Peter Corris revolves around the Toxteth Hotel in Glebe, which was one of the favourite haunts of Cliff Hardy,…

It’s hard to believe that The Suspect by Michael Robotham is his first novel. It’s a gripping psychological thriller, with well defined characters and a…